[Bioperl-l] which version is installed

[Hilmar Lapp]

Sounds very useful to me. I vote for it. -hilmar

On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 09:55 PM, Allen Day wrote:

> There could be a functionless .pm file that just has general bioperl
> documentation.  I like they way "perldoc perl" works, to direct the 
> reader
> to the other perl documentation.  Are we to the point yet that we have
> several readme and install docs yet?  I know Peter Schattner is working
> on a tutorial, and... aren't there some people at the Pasteur Institute
> doing some work along these lines as well?
>
> Anyway, this dummy .pm could be generated during the make, with the
> version encoded in a configuration file (possibly generated by
> Makefile.PL.  You can set source files to be grokked into install files
> using the PL_FILES hashref, like:
>
> WriteMakefile(
>   PL_FILES => { 'bioperl.PLS' => 'bioperl.pm' }
> )
>
> Inside bioperl.PLS you do something like this:
>
> #!perl
> use LocalConf; #a module i wrote for generating pl/pm files from PLS
>                #files, it exports a hash, similar to Config, see
>                #L<Config>.
>
> print OUT <<"!GROK!THIS!";
> =pod
>
> =head2 Bioperl v$Local{version} - blah blah blah
>
> blah blah blah
> !GROK!THIS!
>
>
> I can do this if people feel it's worthwhile.
>
> -Allen
>
>
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
>
>> I think what jason was also referring to is who do you tell which 
>> version you are running if all you have is an installed bioperl. 
>> Would configuring the makefile help here? -hilmar
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Allen Day [mailto:allenday@ucla.edu]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 9:35 PM
>>> To: Jason Stajich
>>> Cc: Bioperl
>>> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] which version is installed
>>>
>>>
>>> You can set the value of VERSION in WriteMakefile(), or set
>>> VERSION_FROM
>>> to the filename where the version can be found.  This is all
>>> documented in
>>> ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
>>>
>>> I think it makes sense to set the release version in
>>> Makefile.PL, and to
>>> let individual modules have their own versions.
>>>
>>> -Allen
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Jason Stajich wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is a common question:
>>>>
>>>>> it (I do not know what Version of bioperl it is. Is
>>>>> there a way to find out the bioperl version easily?).
>>>>
>>>> At one point we were tagging the Bio::Seq module with the
>>> correct version.
>>>> Another option is to globally apply a VERSION tag through
>>> CVS magic in
>>>> either all the $Id$ or through some finagling and actually setting a
>>>> $VERSION variable in all modules and have the value set through cvs
>>>> tagging magic.
>>>>
>>>> What is the best and most CPAN friendly way this should be done?
>>>>
>>>> -jason
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